Career Shift, Investment Firm, and Building Economic Links

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This chapter delves into their career shift from real estate to government, their new business venture combining geopolitical expertise and traditional private equity, and their efforts to build economic links between Israel and the Gulf countries.

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=== Recorded on Mon, Oct 9 ===
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:02) – Hamas attack on Israel
(09:55) – Response to attack
(16:14) – History of Hamas
(18:54) – Iran
(20:41) – Al-Aqsa Mosque
(27:06) – Abraham Accords
(36:00) – Trump vs Biden on Middle East
(45:00) – Israeli-Saudi Normalization
(49:12) – How the Israel-Gaza war ends
(53:29) – Benjamin Netanyahu
(57:06) – Palestinian support
=== Recorded on Thu, Oct 5 ===
(59:47) – Trump 2024
(1:03:15) – Human nature
(1:10:13) – Geopolitics and negotiation
(1:18:56) – North Korea
(1:27:35) – Personalities of leaders
(1:34:11) – Government bureaucracy
(1:39:56) – Accusations of collusion with Russia
(1:49:35) – Ivanka
(1:55:30) – Father
(2:04:13) – Money and power
(2:12:56) – Trust and betrayal
(2:21:57) – Mohammed bin Salman
(2:44:16) – Israeli–Palestinian peace process
(2:58:47) – Abraham Accords and Arab-Israeli normalization
(3:08:53) – Donald Trump
(3:13:59) – War in Ukraine
(3:19:14) – Vladimir Putin
(3:26:33) – China
(3:44:50) – Learning process
(3:51:19) – Hope for the future